A WOODEN memorial at a Liverpool crematorium has been replaced with a plastic stick.

Care worker Sandra Calvert is furious with officials after discovering the tribute to her sister had disappeared.

Miss Calvert, 32, from Warwick Street, Toxteth, visited Springwood crematorium in Allerton, where the ashes of her sister Jacqueline, who died 16 years ago at the age of nine, are buried.

She found the wooden plaque marking her plot and a vase with her name on had been removed.

Miss Calvert says staff told her all wooden plaques had to be pulled out by the end of the month.

Miss Calvert ordered a replacement plastic plaque - at a cost of #130 - but because the plot currently has no plaque on it, she was told it was classed as open, which means other people's remains could be buried there.

When she asked if a temporary marker could be put there, she was shocked when a worker stuck a plastic stick with a yellow sticker on the grave.

Miss Calvert said: "It's looks like an ice lolly stick.

"It is like Jacqueline does not exist and she has been wiped out. I am so glad it wasn't my mum and dad who discovered what had happened.

"When I asked why they had also removed the vase, they said it was because there had been no flowers in it or they had died off, so it had been taken off.

"But the vase was personal to her and had her name on it.

"It annoys me that they can do this without telling anybody.

"When I asked why I hadn't been informed, I was told they didn't have an address to contact me, which is nonsense."